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Using Multiple Yahoo! Email Addresses

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Deleting Disposable Addresses

By default, SpamGuard protects your disposable addresses by sending any messages recognized as spam to your Spam folder. If some spam still makes it to your Inbox or other destination folder, you can do two things:

  • Report the messages as spam by selecting them and clicking the Spam button. This trains your SpamGuard filter to recognize messages of this type and to send them to the Spam folder.
  • Delete the disposable address if you do not expect any more valid email to be sent to the address that receives spam.

Tip: Deleting a disposable address only prevents further mail from being delivered. It doesn't clean out any messages that you already received using that address.

 

Here’s How

  1. Go to the Disposable Email Addresses page in Yahoo! Mail Plus. (Remind me how.)

  2. Select the disposable address that you want to delete.

    Select the disposable address, then click the Remove button.

  3. Click the Remove button.

  4. When prompted, click OK to confirm that you really want to delete the address.

    The selected disposable address disappears from your list.

 

What’s Next

Once you delete a disposable address, Yahoo! Mail Plus returns to the sender all future messages sent to that address.

 
 
 

Words to Know

  • Disposable email address: a customized email address that you create to protect your regular Yahoo! Mail Plus address.
  • Spam: unsolicited email on the Internet; also called "junk mail".
  • Spam folder: a permanent folder containing messages that you or Spamguard consider spam.